Sentences with phrase «bold action on»

The Climate Has Changed report demonstrates that bold action on climate change makes good business sense.

President Obama has thus far failed to use the bully pulpit to make the case for bold action on climate change.

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-- Thomas Loster 14 Corporate leaders urging the Prime Minister to take bold action on climate change «In May 2005 the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change wrote to you about the need to take urgent action on climate change.

This is the inspiring message that our leaders need to hear: With bold action on climate change, it's still possible to prevent the worst - case scenario.

The aim is to get political officials to agree «equitable, immediate, and bold action on climate change» as we enter the final two months before the COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris in December.

With expanded oil drilling looming on the horizon, we need bold action on climate change now.»

«Millennials like us want to see bold action on climate change and Indigenous rights, and we know that means rejecting projects like the Kinder Morgan pipeline,» said Gabriel D'Astous, a recent UBC grad and Climate 101 organizer in the Ottawa area.

Americans spoke up in record numbers to support the plan, calling for bold action on climate and shifting to clean energy across the country.

While he has been lauded by liberals in the state and nationally for bold action on topics like same - sex marriage and gun control, his posture on nuts - and - bolts issues like budgets and taxes has leaned more toward the right.

Representing $ 180 billion, New York City's pension funds have yet to take necessary bold action on par with what the climate crisis requires, explained the organizers of the action.

With Donald Trump proposal to defund the successful AmeriCorps program, we need to take bold action on the state level,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said.

Success, however, will only happen if you remain accountable and continue to take similar bold actions on a day in and day out basis.

It is not only targeting this specific tax that would help businesses, but rather than spending money on reducing VAT, expanding the national insurance holiday for firms taking on new staff, and taking bolder action on the huge business rate rise due to hit in April, would be preferable.

«From leading the fight to get PCBs out of the classroom, to sponsoring the Council Resolution to prohibit fracking in New York State, to fighting to protect children from the deadly effects of lead both here in NYC and in the Dominican Republic, Robert Jackson has been a leader willing to take bold actions on the environment and get results.

However, the charter school sector itself is showing signs of correcting, bold actions on accountability that the editorial fails to mention.

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Many have noted — Notley's government not least among them — that the unwillingness to stake out bold lines of action on key files might not be entirely or even partially the NDP's fault.

For those not bold (or crazy) enough to ink the image of Jobs on their skin, Legend Toy's 12 - inch plastic action figure made in his likeness was, for a time, a less painful and non-permanent way to keep his memory alive.

Japan's yen has weakened 13 percent over the past three months, while the Nikkei stock index has surged about 25 percent on hopes for bold action by the central bank.

The theme of this year's International Women's Day is «Be Bold for Change,» calling on all of us in business to take meaningful action that ushers in the greatest change for women.

Bloomberg reported Thursday that after Draghi's bold words about protecting the euro last week, markets expect him to deliver some sort of drastic action to do so and to relieve pressure on bond yields, which have climbed steadily higher for Spain and Italy.

The Bank of Japan expanded monetary stimulus on July 29 through a modest increase in purchases of exchange - traded funds (ETF), yielding to pressure from the government and financial markets for bolder action to spur growth and accelerate inflation towards its 2 percent target.

He might have offended his critics less if he had more often used the analogy he gave James G. Blaine when explaining his course on Reconstruction: â $ ˜The pilots on our Western rivers steer from point to point as they call itâ $» setting the course of the boat no further than they can see; and that is all I propose to myself in this great problem.â $ ™ â $ œBoth statements suggest Lincolnâ $ ™ s reluctance to take the initiative and make bold plans; he preferred to respond to the actions of others.

Smoky, salty bacon complement bold blue cheese — there is a lot of umami action going on with this fancy mac and cheese.

Mr. Gore, a Democrat who has made drawing attention to global warming his signature cause, called the governor's proposed mandate «a terrific and bold action,» noting that it comes a week before the United Nations will hold a conference on climate change in Paris.

Some press coverage (particularly this Evgeny Morozov piece on ForeignPolicy.com, which the author later reconsidered) seized on the appearance of protest - tagged messages on Twitter to make a bold claim: that Moldovan youth relied on the micro-blogging tool as the main way to organize public actions that began as sit - ins but that morphed into street protests and the temporary takeover of the country's president's office and parliament building.

While noting positive trends in employment and company start - ups, conference believes our economy continues to suffer in the wake of the disastrous banking crisis from a serious shortage of confidence and domestic demand, and therefore calls on Lib Dem ministers to show unity and resolve not only to reduce the structural deficit in the budget but to take radical action to get growth going again with a bold Plan A + with these four pillars:

«He led the way on winning marriage equality in New York, ensured critical non-discrimination protections were extended to transgender New Yorkers, took bold executive action to stop the discredited and dangerous practice of «conversion therapy,» and set a strong example with his successful efforts to significantly lower the incidence of HIV and AIDS in the Empire State.»

«This bold action plan continues to deliver on the needs of New Yorkers by creating jobs, cutting taxes, investing in education and rebuilding our infrastructure from the ground up.

«Government has recently made some bold statements about taking action on climate change.

Leibowitz, echoed Lancman's stance on Social Security, saying «people have to take bold, decisive action.»

«This budget is a bold blueprint for progressive action that builds on seven years of success and helps New York continue to lead amid a concerted and sustained assault from Washington on our values and principles,» Cuomo said in statement.

We accept that bold actions are needed to boost the economy and we hope we are on the right road to helping small firms.

We need bold action - such as he suggests on RBS - and as such have called on the Government to establish a small business administration to fully champion the needs of small businesses.

Mr. Peralta, whose victory in 2010 made him the first Dominican - American to be elected to the State Senate, said in a statement released by the conference on Wednesday that «today's political climate demands that progressive legislators take bold action to deliver for their constituents,» adding that he wanted results on issues like affordable housing, homelessness and school funding.

Friends of the Earth said: «Chris Huhne is right to target the Big Six, but his fighting talk must be matched with bold action to slash energy waste and cut our dependency on expensive fossil fuels.»

(ABC / AP) President Donald Trump has called for bold action to improve school safety after last month's Parkland shooting, but a set of proposals the White House formally plans to endorse on Monday leaves most authority for reform up to the states and for consideration by a new federal commission...

If we had an 85 percent graduation rate and we were inching up toward 90 percent, if we didn't have the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate school districts, if we didn't have a Syracuse Teachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that category.

And while the three real - life heroes gamely try to re-create their own histories, from the years and months and moments leading up to the attack to their bold and decisive actions on that train, they are amateurs, and they come across as such.

They include an African - American (Anthony Mackie) who takes bold actions to crack down on drug dealers, a sharpshooter (Robert Patrick) whose exploits have already become immortalized in comic books, his Hispanic tagalong (Michael Peña), and an intelligent family man (Giovanni Ribisi).

It's a bold and clever conceit to hang a film on, and if McDormand's character had been only slightly more human, the audacity of her actions would have rung with genuine anger and desperation, rather than the same relentless sense of bitter self - aggrandizement that she evinces all throughout the film.

Action sequences, on the other hand, deliver maximum punch with great dynamic range, bold staging, lively and aggressive directionality and panning, and an excellent foundation of bass.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

Have the potential to make a strong impact on student learning through the implementation of a creative and bold plan of action.

Such bold, bipartisan action is needed now more than ever, not only to provide certainty to students and families who are wondering if their schools will be able to open on time and stay open this fall, but to do the right thing for generations of students to come.

Since decades of research make it clear that what matters for evaluating employees or turning around schools is how well you do it — rather than whether you do it a certain way — it's not surprising that well - intentioned demands for «bold» federal action on school improvement have a history of misfiring.

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